Combination-tool.



UNITED STATES PATENT oEEIoE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 31, 1905.

Apolicatwn filed May 2, 1904. Serial'No. 205,889.

To all whom it may concern;-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM SooTT, Jr, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Nyack, in the county of Rockland and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combination-Tools, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in combination-tools; and it consists in the main of a pair of pivotal members having oppositely-bowed outer ends forming jaws and containing removable wrench-blocks, said jaws and blocks exercising a double gripping function.

In the drawings accompanying this application, Figure 1 is a side viewof my improved tool, and Fig. 2 is a front view thereof.

In the formation of my improved combined tool I provide a two-part pivotal device, the handle portions of which may comprise parts of other tools, while the head portions thereof may constitute and include further tools.

In describing said parts let A indicate a hammer member bearing the hammer-head a, and B the other hammer member bearing the claws b. Said members A and B are crossed and pivotally united by a pivot, as C.

The handle portion of member A is provided with an offset extension A in the form of a aw of a pair of wire-cutters, the other jaw whereof, as D, being pivotally united thereto by pivot d and extending rearwardly into a handle D. Similarly, the handle por tion of member B is provided with an offset extension B in the form of a jaw of a pair of pliers, the other jaw whereof, as E, being pivotally united thereto by pivot e and extending rearwardly into a handle E.

As will be noted, the bipart hammer-head is composed of the oppositely-bowed aws a b of members A B, respectively, the meeting edges thereof being inwardly beveled. Set within the jaws a b, respectively, are the oppositely-disposed crescent-shaped wrenchblocks F F, which unitedly form a pipewrench. Said blocks F F may be connected to the jaws a b by means of integral shanks,

in said jaws (indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 1) and are secured by rivets or the like, as f f A space, as G, exists between the outer surface of the pipe-wrench and the inner surface of the jaws a b.

The various uses to which the above-noted tools and implements may be put will be readily comprehended.

By means of the jaws a b and gripperblocks F F a two-fold hold or purchase may be had upon an article held thereby, this being an important function of my improved device. It is evident that when gripping a bar of metal with a single pair of aws it is sometimes difficult to obtain a rigid hold thereof, whereas if such bar be gripped at two different points it may be more securely held. This latter is the result I attain by means of the double grip afforded through the oint-grippers a b and F F.

When desired to remove a-horseshoe from the hoof, the beveled jaws a b are caused to meet beneath the shoe, whose outer surface bears against the outer surface of the wrenchblocks F F, whereby a good purchase is obtained in wrenching or tearing the shoe from the hoof.

While the means of handling the remaining tools is too obvious to need explanation, attention is directed to the particular contour of the handles D and E of the wire-cut ter and pliers, respectively, said contour when these implements are closed forming a very convenient hand-grip for the hammer, whereby this latter tool may be wielded with efficiency.

The members A and B are separated to form a space H, within which certain articles may be grasped when of too great a bulk to be gripped between the jaws a b and blocks F F.

When the wrench-blocks F F become worn with usage, they may be removed and new ones inserted in their place, as is obvious.

Having now described my invention, I declare that what I claim is In a tool of the class described, a pair of pivoted handle members provided at their as f, which fit within slots prepared therefor outer ends with oppositely-bowed and illwardly-beveied gripping-jaws,saidjaws when a double gripping function can be exercised to closed forming a substantially circular openbetween the blocks and the aws.

ing in which is mounted a pair of crescent- Signed at New York city this 16th day of shaped wrench-blocks, said b]ocks being re- April, 1904. 5 inovably secured to the bowed portions of WILLIAM SCOTT JR the j aws by means of shanks passing through slots at the rear of the bowed portions; the Witnesses:

forward edges of the crescent-shaped blocks FREDERICK C. BONNY, contacting when the jaws are closed whereby R. A. ETHERSON. 

